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*A* and I are spending a quiet day at home today, which suits us just fine. It’s frigid outside, super windy, we’re both recovering from rather nasty colds, and as I’ve spent much of the week being a bachelor (*A*’s been at a counseling conference for the past several days, like she did last year), I’m … Continue reading →

A few months ago, in September, I joined a blog link-up sponsored by Kristen, whose blog Adoption Love has been a big encouragement to us for well over a year now. Though I participated in the first link-up, which was sort of an introductory one, I either wimped out on subsequent ones or didn’t get myself … Continue reading →

The holidays have been a bit weird for us this year. They seemed to swoop down upon us, with Christmas following just a day or two behind Thanksgiving, and now it’s New Year’s Eve. Their swiftness has probably been a good thing. I don’t think any waiting-for-a-while-but-ever-hopeful adoptive family will tell you that they have … Continue reading →

Life has been pretty busy lately. Sometimes a little too busy. It hit me the other day that though in a comment on my last post I promised that I would never again wait three whole weeks to write another post, it has now been six weeks. Not so great. And after a while of not posting, the … Continue reading →

Our adoption agency, the IAC, gives their families who have been waiting to adopt for at least one year the option of joining what they call the “Last Minute Hospital List.” Basically, this means that an expectant mother is at the hospital and is just about to (or has just) given birth and has decided … Continue reading →

It’s no secret that October is our most favorite of months. I mentioned our love for Octobers and all the lovely things of fall quite a few times last year: here, here, and here are just three examples. This first weekend of October, we’re spending our evenings watching a a movie and eating *A*’s most fantastic baked apple … Continue reading →

Subtitled: The Anniversary We Hoped We Wouldn’t Have Further Subtitled: But Let’s Try To Not Get Too Bogged Down By It, Now It’s Here. This past Wednesday, September 24th, marked the one-year anniversary since we went “in the books” with our agency (which basically refers to the time we’ve been home-study approved and that our … Continue reading →

It’s been too long since I posted anything about Doodlebug Club! This little preschool art class I teach has been going wide-open all summer, exploring all different kinds of art and producing some fantastic stuff that would make any refrigerator proud! In the past month, as school started, I had to say goodbye to several … Continue reading →

It was around early August last year that I somehow stumbled across a blog written by an adoptive mom, Kristen, who was, at that time, a year into her and her husband’s wait to adopt. She was trying something new after a year and began blogging on their site, Adoption Love. I was instantly drawn into … Continue reading →

Today’s my birthday, number 33! I woke up to a fantastic breakfast of *A*’s new specialty coconut-crusted stuffed french toast. She’s working on my old-fashioned birthday cake as we speak. I’m so lucky to have such a great partner. It’s the icing on the cake (pun completely intended) to have a fantastic baker and cook … Continue reading →

As we round the last corner of a year into the Great Wait, we’re getting ready for our home study update visit. Last year, after all of our initial paperwork was submitted, but before we could go live with our iheartadoption.org profile or be listed as “available” parents, we had two visits with a social … Continue reading →

August. It’s always been a month of transition for me, always a feeling of ending one thing and moving on to the next. Maybe that’s because it’s my birthday month, but looking back, there seem to be all sorts of elements of change that occurred in August. Historically speaking, throughout my loooong educational career-to-date, it’s … Continue reading →

I’ve done it. Made my very first quilt. Well, quilted picnic blanket, actually. But the word “quilt” is in there, so that’s good enough to claim as a “first” in my book. I saw this project quite a while back and thought I might one day tackle it. Coupled with our love of being outdoors, traveling, and … Continue reading →